Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a brush of hairs; a little bundle of divergent hairs, as those on many caterpillars.
- noun A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (mented.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
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- noun medicine, dated A
tent orpledget forwounds orulcers .
Etymologies
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Latin penicillum, penicillus, a painter's brush, a roll of lint, a tent for wounds.
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